Hebe pimeleoides (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan

Small shrub to 30 cm tall. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, mostly 0.5-1.5 cm long, to 0.5 cm wide, facing upwards, waxy-blue, slightly concave. Flower clusters axillary. Flowers paired, bluish to lilac; summer to autumn.

New Zealand

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Hebe pimeleoides 'Quicksilver'

Shrub to about 45 cm tall. Branchlets purplish brown. Leaves waxy grey, about half the length of the type, elliptic, spreading. Flowers bluish purple.

Introduced County Park Nursery, Essex, UK.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Plantaginaceae
genus        Hebe Juss.